What in hamfat do you think about this design?

I recently posted an "advice wanted" topic in the construction forum (http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9770). I'm interested to know what the consensus is on this design: http://www.recordinginstitute.com/R2KREQ/cottage.htm It seems like this design would take a lot of heat from this board because of the parallel walls in the control and main recording rooms; however, if it is possible to work with this design in my space 22' L X 13' W X 9' H, then I am all ears. Please let me know what you think! Thanks, Andy

nothing wrong with parallel walls. i use them all the time... makes mode calculation easy, make drawing easy, makes construction easier. here's an example of a rectangular room. with acoustic treatments...

It seems like you would be much more limited in what you could do with acoustic treatments in an 11'4" L X 7' W control room space, though, correct? Also, the aforementioned design has the engineer facing out toward the tracking room. Is there any way to do that right with that small amount of space? I haven't seen many designs on the forum that support facing the tracking room with dimensions like that.

yeah, as you suspect, ideally you want your monitors facing down the length of the room, so as an example, in reference to your drawing, the engineer would face towards the left wall, and would be able to turn his head to the right to look into the live room when nessasary... so as drawn, yes your studio can be built and work effectively... however, JS has a few rooms that are lateral, such as music farm... so, even if your stuck with facing the live room directly, then you may want to add several more feet, you'll find that you won't be able to get the correct monitor positioning with only 7' of space between the front and rear wall. if your primarily concerned with isolation and wanting a large live room, you may just consider a one room studio... (as i'm sure you have already) k

Thanks for the feedback, sandledfoot! Yeah, I'm mulling it all over, and a one room design isn't off the table. I'd rather have space and good sound than multiple rooms.

in this case of this example control , the room is rectangular and the interior walls are treatments. nothing prevents you from using it as a single rectangular room and just applying treatments along the walls and ceiling to get the balance you want. if you needed to turn it sideways (for instance having 2 rooms) you can do that if the dimensions are good but you have to treat the walls a bit differently to get the right balance between direct and reflect sounds...